With the advent of advanced global communication, new forms of social contract can be created which transcend the geographic state. These new cybercoops or cyberstates will bring humankind to higher levels of cooperation and understanding.

"When the World Leaders announce that, unlike our agreement in 1992 in Rio which we disregarded, this time we will adopt CO2 limits that must be honored and that such compliance will be prosecuted with a system of national, state, and local quotas, such a plan should be rejected.

Instead, we should embrace the heroes path. We should embrace the development of technologies that will allow for the massive deployment of light to energy technologies that can be deployed by individuals who are committed to this deployment. Farmers, ranchers, oilmen, and other businessmen and businesswomen should see that within this crisis lies a great opportunity.

The Crisis will give us an opportunity to examine our communities and how they are built. It will give us the opportunity to examine our system of transportation and our need to express our freedom through mindless mobility. It will give us the opportunity to step back and look at our consumer society, its ethics and the natural repercussions of the philosophy of materialism that presently permeates our current world view.

It will give us the opportunity to view the Gross National Product as a measure of inefficiency and waste instead of a measure of our success.ASCENDING THE MOUNT

The Olympian response to the realization that we are indeed involved in an epic struggle to right the balance of the earth will call for a radical and meaningful departure from the world view of the Titans. It will involve the ethics and virtues found in the Olympian Pantheon.

The Olympian response will embrace the belief that this calamity in the making can forge a refining of the human spirit and the human condition. It will postulate that a world of courage and justice is ours for the making.

It will state that our emphasis should be on wisdom and beauty; that fine arts, music, and the pastoral arts should be developed to the utmost of the human potential. It will stress refinement of the law. It would make medicine an art instead of a business.

The Olympian response will seize the opportunity presented by our own ignorance and seek to transform that ignorance into a mechanism of human transfiguration.